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Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
The Book’s Agenda
Rudiments of Argument and Strategy
Recursive Structure
Introduction: The Question of Truth in the Historiography and Ethnography of Ifa Divination
Truth as an Ethnographic Object
Ifa in West Africa and the Prestige of Truth
Afro-American Religion and the Politics of Its Representation
CHAPTER 1. Truth in Anthropology: From Nature and Culture to Recursive Analysis
Evolutionism, “Diffusionism,” Constructivism: The Fall of Truth
Toward a Recursive Analysis of Truth
CHAPTER 2. Truth Beyond Doubt: The Alterity of Divination
Divination in Anthropology
Evans-Pritchard on Oracles
Boyer on Divination, Causal Indices, and Truth
Divination in Anthropology
Desiderata for an Analysis of Divinatory Truth
CHAPTER 3. Living Ifa: The Matter of Truth
True Encounters
Divinatory Regulation: Javier’s Initiatory Career
Divination and the Path of Initiation
The Matrix of Initiation and the Propulsion of Paths
Living Ifa
Speaking Ifa and the Economy of Learning
Secrets
CHAPTER 4. Mythical Transcendence and Ritual Elicitation: The Cosmo-Praxis of Ifa Divination
The Problem with the Problem of Transcendence
Myth and Transcendence
Ritual and Immanence
The Cosmological Problem of Divination
The Liturgy of Ifá Divination
CHAPTER 5. The Ontology of Motion: Power, Powder, and Vertical Transformation
Ontological Non Sequiturs
Motile Practice—A Choreography of Nuts
Motile Discourse—Talking of Paths
Motile Cosmology—Aché in Divination
An Interlude on the Analysis of Motility—or, the Power of Powder
Motile Ontology—Potential Relations and the Direction of Motion
CHAPTER 6. Divinatory Metamorphosis: Symbolism, Interpretation, and the Motility of Meaning
The Problem of Symbolism and the Motility of Meaning
Interrogating Orula
“Speaking the Signo,” “Interpreting the Paths”
Motile Meanings in Divination
CHAPTER 7. The Event of Truth: Coincidence, Revelation, Bewilderment
Coincidence, Paths, and the Event of Truth (or Bewilderment)
Motile Truth, Representation, and Their Mutual Eclipse
Skepticism and Misunderstanding
CHAPTER 8. Definition and Obligation: The Truth of the Oracles
No Lies, No Mistakes
Divination and Definition
Divination and Obligation
Initiation as Ontological Transformation
Equivocations
Conclusion: Anthropological Truth
Divination and Anthropology
Ontography as Antidivination
Epilogue: On Humility
Appendix A: The Naming and Ranking of Divinatory Configurations
Appendix B: “Papers of Ifa”: An Example
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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